Is it a marriage red flag when a couple only has one child? One daughter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two couples we're close with only have one daughter each. The gals are both entering 5th and 7th grade, so it seems the two couples are done with kids. Odd, yeah? I feel like a single child with one boy, the so called male heir, is less strange.

I feel like you're a sexist idiot.

[Anonymous]

There are many reasons a couple would only have one child. Also, it seems girls are generally more desired these days (at least among the people I know).

Signed,
A mom of all boys

[Anonymous]

Umm I just wanted one child and not more? Son is 13 and we are as happily married as any happily married couple.

[Anonymous]

Geez. Even the Queen of England agreed to change the line of succession so that the oldest child would inherit regardless of sex.

[Anonymous]

Um... what? The male heir? Are you and your friends royalty/aristocracy? What is this male inheriting? Is the implication here that anyone who has a daughter must then continue to have more children in a quest for a male child? Just trying to untwist this logic...

[Anonymous]

WTF, what century is this?

[Anonymous]

OP, perhaps these couples may have lost a second or even third child and you just don't know about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, perhaps these couples may have lost a second or even third child and you just don't know about it.

Or they just want one kid.

It's not always a situation with other explanations. Some of us just want one kid.

[Anonymous]

Wait what? Weird. I have lots of friends with only 1 kid. For a variety of reasons. For several of them, that child is a girl. For some, it's a boy. Not a single couple decided to stay at only 1 child because of the sex/gender of the child. It was because they only wanted, or could only have, 1 child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTAF is wrong with you?!

-- A woman with one daughter, who is in a happy marriage

Ditto. What a bizarre OP.

[Anonymous]

Your question is a red flag that you are a nut job, and clearly need more serious issues to ponder.

[Anonymous]

Phew. I am so glad that my one kid turned out to be a boy so we have a male heir. Massive relief over here, 9 years later.

Always only wanted one kid. Had that kid been a girl, there would still be only one.

You're a wacko, OP.

[Anonymous]

Marriage red flag for who? How are you involved in their marriage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Phew. I am so glad that my one kid turned out to be a boy so we have a male heir. Massive relief over here, 9 years later.

Always only wanted one kid. Had that kid been a girl, there would still be only one.

You're a wacko, OP.

+1, except that our only is a girl.
+1,000,000 on OP being a wacko.

[Anonymous]

Weirdo